13th Floor Madness
- 艺人
- 999
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Albion
- 发行时间
- 1984年02月14日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Stephen SPAZ Schnee
With four powerful punk/pop albums to their credit, 999 decided to go in a different direction with their fifth release, alienating many of their fans and critics in the process. Adding more varied rhythms and slowing everything down to nearly a crawl, the boys don't fall flat on their face, but their experiments are not entirely successful either. &Use Your Imagination& seems the closest thing to a classic 999 track, albeit a lot lighter than usual. &Lookin' Like You Do& has a reggae beat and a nice hook, but seems a bit empty. Other tracks follow the same path, taking in a bit of light soul/funk (&It's What You've Got&, &13th Floor Madness&), '80s pop (&Good To See You&, &Don't Want You Back&) and exotic ska (&Arabesque&). Instead of the songs being based around the same 999 formula of old, there's a definite groove-based style of songwriting this time around, which doesn't quite translate to vinyl although bootleg live recordings of these songs show that the band added the necessary extra meat in a live setting. Though not a terrible album, 999 lost a lot of momentum with this release and it took a few years for them to recover.
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